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in albany, don ford, cbs 5. >>> important news for people who drive a prius. toyota has agreed to pay some former prius owners and fix millions of other cars. this was part of a settlement worth more than $1 billion to deal with the problem of some priuses suddenly accelerating. toyota will give 16 million current toyota owners supplemental warranty coverage for certain problems. toyota will retrofit 3.2 million priuses with a brake override system. and toyota will offer cash payments to customers who sold their prius cars or turned in leased priuses between september 2009 and december 2010. that's to compensate them for the car's lost value. >> for consumers, it means that two major defects in toyota vehicles will be fixed but how many more defects are there? how many more recalls are there going to be? after all, toyota in the last three years recalled over 10 million vehicles. >> what this settlement. does not resolve, claims by people who want money for injuries or deaths linked to the sudden acceleration problems. a federal judge still has to okay the set
in albany, don ford, cbs 5. >>> important news for people who drive a prius. toyota has agreed to pay some former prius owners and fix millions of other cars. this was part of a settlement worth more than $1 billion to deal with the problem of some priuses suddenly accelerating. toyota will give 16 million current toyota owners supplemental warranty coverage for certain problems. toyota will retrofit 3.2 million priuses with a brake override system. and toyota will offer cash payments...
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don ford, cbs 5. >>> other bay area headlines. richmond's homicide rate is down and the city is no longer on the most dangerous list. this year 18 people were killed. that is a drop from 45 just three years ago. it is the lowest number the stelazine since 2001. >>> in san francisco, the business improvement district is trying to deal with pushy panhandlers. they are interviewing people glove to the panhandlers. the idea is coming up with concrete ideas to finally stop what has been a problem for years. >>> thousands of bay area nurses walked off the job. this 24 hour strike is the latest in the series of strikes by the california nurses association. as usual, the hospital brought in replacement nurses. union leaders and manages still ateds over benefits and staffing. >>> right now, odds are you finished with your shopping if you are watching our newscast, right? cbs 5 reporter mike sugerman has the annual story of last minute annual shoppers. how busy are those stores? >> reporter: these are the people who in high school waited un
don ford, cbs 5. >>> other bay area headlines. richmond's homicide rate is down and the city is no longer on the most dangerous list. this year 18 people were killed. that is a drop from 45 just three years ago. it is the lowest number the stelazine since 2001. >>> in san francisco, the business improvement district is trying to deal with pushy panhandlers. they are interviewing people glove to the panhandlers. the idea is coming up with concrete ideas to finally stop what has...
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. >> don' intervene. that's our true message. we want you to become involved. there's nothing wrong with driving around reporting suspicious activity but don't take on someone who is possibly armed because that could end violently. >> reporter: suzie walks her dog almost every day and has noticed the new patrols out on the streets. >> i think we have to be as neighbors to watch out for each other. keep an eye because there is not enough police so i think it is important. >> reporter: so is it working? well, those neighborhood volunteers said there have not been any home burglaries in their community since they started these patrols but at this point they are not ready to claim success. they say they want a little more time to go by. they think they're making a difference in being a deterrent. >> thank you. >>> it's something i have never come across in 22 years. >> the decomposed body of a father found two years after his death. how police say his son made money by keeping it a secret. >> struggling libraries see a positive new chapter on the horizon. how someo
. >> don' intervene. that's our true message. we want you to become involved. there's nothing wrong with driving around reporting suspicious activity but don't take on someone who is possibly armed because that could end violently. >> reporter: suzie walks her dog almost every day and has noticed the new patrols out on the streets. >> i think we have to be as neighbors to watch out for each other. keep an eye because there is not enough police so i think it is important....
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cbs 5 reporter don ford says they are offering new license plates that are actually old. >> reporter: california is clearly the car capital of the country and if you crave the classics, the dmv has a deal for you. starting this january 1 for an extra $50 you can preorder vintage-looking license plates for you new car, black on yell lower not 50s or yellow on black for the '60s and another color for the '70s. >> you can have it on anything according to the way the law reads. you can have it on your prius. you can have it on your new camaro. you can have it on anything, right? >> reporter: originally, vintage plates meant it was a good bet their car was more often than not born and raised in california especially with collector cars. >> previously, to this new law, the black and yellow plates gave it maybe a 10% increase in value because that unique california heritage. >> reporter: craig cominski is a retired judge and car collector from southern california. he says the state needs to -- how do you judge that? >> i would say we're raising revenue so i guess because we should raise some
cbs 5 reporter don ford says they are offering new license plates that are actually old. >> reporter: california is clearly the car capital of the country and if you crave the classics, the dmv has a deal for you. starting this january 1 for an extra $50 you can preorder vintage-looking license plates for you new car, black on yell lower not 50s or yellow on black for the '60s and another color for the '70s. >> you can have it on anything according to the way the law reads. you can...